Fat-soluble powder colours

With fat-soluble powder colour you can colour couverture and cocoa butter right through without thickening them. This category holds powders only: Roxy & Rich powder colour for chocolate in 5 g and Mona Lisa fat-soluble powder colour in 100 g. Powder goes a long way, keeps well when stored dry and tightly closed, and can be mixed shade by shade.

Which powder colours do we stock?

• Roxy & Rich powder colour for chocolate, 5 g: red, yellow, orange, blue, indigo blue, green, light green, brown and black. Handy when a range of chocolates calls for lots of different shades.
• Mona Lisa fat-soluble powder colour, 100 g: red, yellow, blue, green and orange, for anyone who regularly colours larger batches.

Pastes and liquid colours have their own pages: Colour Mill for chocolate and liquid chocolate colouring.

How to mix in the powder

Add the powder straight to tempered white couverture chocolate or to melted cocoa butter. You get the most even result by stirring it into a small portion first and then folding that into the rest. If specks remain, use a stick blender held deep in the mass so you do not add air. Dose carefully: a shade is easy to deepen but hard to lighten. Red, yellow and blue give you purple, green and orange.

Stirred into melted cocoa butter, the powder becomes your own cocoa butter colour. Paint it into the mould with a brush for chocolate, or strain it through a fine sieve before filling your airbrush for chocolate so no grains block the nozzle. Prefer ready-mixed shades? Have a look at our coloured cocoa butter.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use ordinary food colouring for chocolate?

No. Water-based colours make chocolate seize: it turns thick and grainy and can no longer be poured. Couverture always needs a fat-soluble colour such as these powders.

Why colour white couverture rather than dark?

White couverture is pale and neutral, so the pigments show their true shade. In milk chocolate colours look muted, and in dark chocolate you can hardly see them.

Where can I learn to decorate with coloured couverture?

In our chocolate decorations course in Adliswil. To try it at home, follow the recipe Make your own colourful chocolate Easter eggs. Every type of colour is on our chocolate colours page.